"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

I actually got fined for not voting at the last State Election. There was a lot happening in my life and on the day just didn't get around to chosing between incumbent government that had sold off most of our assets and utilities and the contender that would give the rest away. The fine is escalating due to non-payment but the feckers can make me do time [at a greater expense to community] if they have to because they can shove it up their bums sideways.

True. My teenage son is embarrassed by the radical politics I post on Facebook.

Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,TPBM will keep the red flag flying here.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

(Mrs. Margaret Tebbit, who was left in a wheelchair following the IRA's bombing of the Grand Hotel, Brighton in 1984 during the Conservative Party conference. Now those were the days of real terrorism, not like your modern rubbish, oh dear me no...)

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.